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A new zombie tale: AUTOMATON TRANSFUSION - a bloody indie film
Hey folks, Harry here with the latest in indie zombie horror. You just couldn't live another day without hearing of a new zombie film. Well here ya go...
Yo, long time reader, first time scoop.
First time being a zombie, actually.
I'm a big fan of a Detroit metal band called Flesh and Blood Robot, and they sent out a mass email to all their fans in Florida to put on the FABR merch and stomp on out to Orlando to be zombies in a movie called AUTOMATON TRANSFUSION, directed by a new guy named Steven Miller, and his production company "Through the Heart".
(Sorry for plugging the band, by the way, but I gotta.)
Anyhow, my brother and our girlfreinds all made shirts and took a drive to Orlando. The setup is pretty fucking indipendent, but they do have a bit of money to back it up. News is they have (or recently had) Lionsgate swing by to take a look at production, but I don't know what the deal is with that.
It's a really standard zombie plot, big city of the walking (or in this case RUNNING) dead, chasing after three hipsters. Basic. The main idea is that the American Government had attempted to bring back the dead of past wars to fight alongside modern soldiers, but something went wrong.
HORRIBLY wrong! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!
Anyway, thats the scoop. Heres the website: Through-The-Heart.Com
You can check out the trailer. If you see a zombie in the crowd wearing a green hat and a grey shirt, thats me.
You can call me The Flesh and Blood Robot.
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superman once said something I will rarely forget seven times : Love mold, love nectarines. Every day. Tarkovsky 4 life.
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...does not a zombie mob make. This is embarassing.
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If the world is going to produce this volume of same-y zombie flicks, it's going to need more George Romeros. And what is it with cheesy metal bands and horror movies? Cannibal Corpse pretty much made a career out of being the soundtrack to an imaginary zombie movie. Eaten Back To Life indeed. That might have been a better title than "Automaton Transfusion" however, which ranks right up there with "Monsturd!" and "C.H.U.D." as a few of the most incredibly dumbass horror film titles ever.
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Jul 09, 2005 1:50:45 AM CDT
fuck man was i the only one who loves Romero but hated land of t
by alucinor11
land of the dead was bad I mean I absolutely love Dawn, Day, and Night but dude was I the only one to notice that that movie had horrible dialogue, awful characters, a really dumb plot reiterated from Day, and political nonsense with rich white men and their black servants. I mean cmon man what happened to good old survival with cool characters and occassionally funny zombie humor? I mean a message can be there but does it have to be so obvious?
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... C'mon! CHUD 2: Bud the CHUD was an instant classic! The way it mixed elements of... oh, who am I kidding? I couldn't sit through that POS...
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i enjoy zombies
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this has nothing to do with zombies but I get to see it so fuck everyone I'm excited!
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Jul 09, 2005 3:52:14 AM CDT
I can't begin to put words to how tired the plots of Zombie
by lezbo milk
I mean really, is there any other niche of genre films who's plots are so identical? Every fucking zombie flick is exactly the same except for some small (and I mean small) twist. Don't you get tired of it all?
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I vaguely remember a 70's movie called "The Clonus Horror". I think MST3K lampooned it.
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It sounds like someone has been reading 80's issues of G.I. Joe. Combining the DNA of the greatest military minds of all time, Cobra creates - Serpentor! Yo Joe!
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Jul 09, 2005 8:41:38 AM CDT
I Love Zombies, But I Think It Might Be Time To Back Off
by zombiesolutions
the market is saturated with zombie carnage! unless theres an actual new spin on it (like in 28 Days or LOTD, or Shaun), i don't necessarily need to see it. but boy, that LOTD! that was a keeper. as were 28 Days and Shaun. great stuff! first ten minutes and ending credits of DAWN Remake were great, the rest of it was aiight. just aiight.
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Jul 09, 2005 9:15:03 AM CDT
How About A Movie About Hipsters Having To Get Jobs After Their
by zombiesolutions
ironic distancing and post-modern fashion statements suddenly seem so trite when faced with ACTUAL SURVIVAL! call it "WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN: THE RECKONING" as thousands of trustfund babies are forced to look for employment because cocaine, skyrocketing rents, and high priced vintage clothing took all the trustfundedness away! imagine the horror! the horror of REAL LIFE without a financial security blanket! shivers! "We tried to finish the album... but... nobody cares about it because everyone is in a band! Then we thought about starting an electro clash band (the easiest kind to start), but that fake trend died like 5 or 6 years ago! We're fucked man! We'll have to work like... gasp... the lower classes! We might even have to... move to... (gasp sob choke), JERSEY CITY! NOOOOOOO!!! Oh, the humanity! Heeellllppp!!!"
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Actually I gathered it was mostly Romero fans that were REALLY pissed at the film. I'm a big fan of the guy and have been since I was 13 or perhaps younger, but I actully didn't hate Land. I've come to seperate it from the trilogy and enjoy it for it's cheesy Carpenter-ish goofyness. That said, totally hear you. Peace.
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What are those guys just standing there for? What are they looking at? stupid
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I would pay to watch that. Trustfund kids who slowly realize that they must join the working force to come close to living their decadent, bullshit lifestyle. I think they'd rather be eaten by zombies.
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Sounds like a shite flick in the making to me. I peeped about 10 minutes of another so-called zombie flick last night on cable called "Ring of Darkness" about some zombie boy band--which one would think might be interesting!--but, no, it was utter shite.
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I don't know, it looks well shot. But I didn't get that it was a zombie mob. The only thing that thi reminded me of was PCU, where the entire campus was chasing after the pre-frosh.
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Jul 09, 2005 12:34:24 PM CDT
As much as I'd love to bitch about too many bad zombie movie
by neosamurai85
I'm too busy designing a cheap blood spurting kit for my friends B-Zombie movie... hey, at least I stoped writing the script for the one I was working on. Peace.
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thats exactly what i thought the first time i heard the plot of the film. Myabe they did maybe they didnt, i dont know. Lets just hope this movie is better than CLONUS. Its got CGI and pretty colors !!! lol
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Bloody Indie films. (shakes head). How many do we have to endure; in this day and age. (Looks at ground) kor deer (say that phonetically).
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All you motherfucks are gonna pay! We're gonna fuck your mothers while you watch and cry like whiney little bitches. Then we're gonna make you eat our shit, then shit out our shit, and eat your shit thats made up of our shit that we made you eat.
Always wanted to put that on a movie site.
Seriously, though, the movie's gonna be pimp. -
Sigh, zombie movies come and go... literally. Unless George Romero himself is making them, they shouldn't be around all the time. There should be a few, then many years need to pass before the next batch comes out... these years are there to reflect on what you've made as a zombie movie maker, and one of the things that needs to be focused on heavily, is ZOMBIES NEED TO STOP RUNNIG REALLY REALLY FAST. There's no point to this... i understand them acting ravenously when in close quarters, but these are dead rotting bodies, they can't be moving around like they're hopped up on speed. This is falling into the SUPERMAN realm of "we keep making him more and more powerful, how can any of these bad guys possbly beat him?". DC actually did this... and now it's carrying over into zombie movies. So, realistically, nobody can possibly run forever, especially your average american, and the zombies win, ALWAYS. What are they going to do when the actors finally realize they can hop in a car and leave? Give zombies wheels and an engine? When are people going to learn that it's not how powerful the zombie is that makes the story?! IT'S EVERYTHING ELSE!!! GEORGE ROMERO GAVE US AN OUTLINE TO FOLLOW AS FILM MAKERS, HOW HARD IS IT TO UNDERSTAND THIS?!!!! I hate people... grumble grumble grumble...
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People bitch when everyone rips off George Romero, than everyone bitches when they try to make zombies not like George Romero. Everyone goes on and on about how the tendons in the legs would be first to go... well, maybe that true, but with that same logic isn't it a tad odd that they can bite huge chunks of fleash out of people with their decaying jaws? Do even need to go into the strenth required to actually rip a persons stomach cavity open with your barehands. Go ahead, try and tear the fleash on your body with you hand, it might be easy to bruise, but tear... now imagine trying to do it with decaying muscles... need I say more? Peace.
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I always had a problem with the whole "everything is decaying" bit of the running zombies argument. Would they not need to have some basic life functions going on to see and move and such? So why is the body still rotting, even during this? I would figure that the state of being a zombie just sort of take away everything but the basic instinct to feed, including pain and fear and such. So, not feeling pain, would they not be able to overtax their muscles whit physical activity? Makes sense to me. Always thought being a zombie was more a virus than anything.
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Despite the apparent, OH no they are making another horror movie about zombies.. I think it rocks ... this has got to be the bloodiest movie I have ever seen, sure to be a cult classic ... and who cares about the oh what about the realism of ripping flesh or decaying jaws ... do you really think zombies exist...LOL It is fantasy and that is what makes it fun... People spend way to much time deciphering films instead of enjoying them, which is why they are made, for entertainment...
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There. My hat is in the political ring. I think I'm going to make some t-shirts that have that slogan.
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although that's a factor as well. The brain is barely functioning as a zombie. If you have fast-running zombies, then it must be logical that they would have fast reflexes as well. By that train of thought, if they have fast reflexes, they must have some higher brain function, which can't be if they are TRUE zombies. You didn't see the fast zombies keep running into walls, or fail to take a turn after one of it's victims in the DOTD remake, did you? Zombies are stupid, and if they really ran, they'd be tripping over curbs and running into walls all over the place. (actually a pretty hilarious visual, if you ask me) Zombies with fast reflexes are scarier, sure. But then they aren't zombies anymore, they're something else entirely. Good christ, I think way too much on things that don't really matter.
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Jul 09, 2005 11:53:02 PM CDT
who cares about the oh what about the realism of ripping flesh o
by neosamurai85
Actually that was meant to be my point. The whole thing is absurd, so what's the big deal? I love slow Zombies. I see your point about the brain OBSD. First time anyone has made a good argument on that, that I've read. So props there. I don't think Being able to run must = reflexes though, or more importantly that reflexes = higher brain. Reflexes can be the most basic function of the brain. I'll admit I'm no specialist in this field but am I really that far off? Also I'd be careful with using the word "TRUE" since there are such things as zombies in reality. They are people who infected with a mix of puffer fish venom and other things, are buried alive and dug up after lack of oxygen (along with the effects of the mixture I
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Guess you guys don't read Vice much huh? As an avid Idler, what's the big fucking deal 'bout a work ethic? Or you just jealous of the hotties you don't get? And c'mon, if your trust fundin it, your livin in Manhattan. Decadent lifestyle, who wouldn't want that ya jealous fucksucks? And yo fools everyone knows electroclash is out but that doesn't stop LCD Soundsystem from throwin down the best live show I've seen in years. You want a solution to all ya problems...become a fucking bartender like me. Ya work hard, ya get good drugs, ya meet hot drunk horny women every night, and ya still get to feel "blue-collar".
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This is Shaun's fault...
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This is clearly the age of the running zombies, and it's just getting boring. End of story. It takes more than a fast zombie to keep my interest in anything.
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Because it's in the script!! It's fiction people!! Thank the gods not all movies are the same, cause if they were, we would already have seen this one. Whoever has studied or disected a "real" zombie, please feel free to disagree, because obviously you are experts in the physiology and behavior of zombies and know inarguably that they can't run!! I'm sorry for yelling at all the geeks. I'm married to a geek. I'm a geek myself. But zombies have many origins according to many different movies, so why couldn't their behavior be different without them being "NOT ZOMBIES"? I think the plot's kinda weak though.
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All they've got is that trailer. That's it. There's no evidence of anything else - a cast is "in place", that's all. And still they claim it's going to be screening in October? WHAT? Pipe-dream no-budget ambition runs afoul of lack of ability and onanist delusion?
What the hell is this vapour-movie being covered on Aint It Cool for? Jesus. This is worse than the plant-spawned reviews that pop up "from time to time". -
so i was skeptical about the nonsense of running zombies but i found the directors AIM and thought ide aim him. Actually he was pretty damn cool and talked to me for like and hour. The guy loves 80s horror films and zombie flicks. He explained to me why they run and i found it pretty fuckin cool. Army enhanced zombies to fight wars for us instead of the living.
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So Brendon you are sure theres no movie?... Oh wait but a quick google search of the movie will send you to www.jeffdolen.com where you can see stills of the movie updated DAILY while it's being shot... No movie... I'm working on this project and the 3 nights i spent last weekend standing around the fucking woods with blood and dirt and god knows what all over my body was not for a god damn trailer.
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Ok..I've had the awesome pleasure of being a zombie in this movie during most of the days of shooting, and I have never ever ever been sooo intrigued by them! I'm a new horror fan! Guys, give it a break...we've got Land of the Dead, The Devil's Rejects, etc...but this is completely different! I promise! and its gory as hell...Steven Miller is a freakin genius when it comes to this. Check it out...if you dont like the plot, you can at least say that effects were kick ass.
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